Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
WILL DURANTEducation is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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